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Reporter’s Notebook: Environmental oral history project continues with Bob Dunn

By Stephanie Hemphill | April 24, 2017 |

Bob Dunn, a quiet, effective environmental crusader. Photo by Stephanie Hemphill.

Key players in passage and uses of early environmental legislation are interviewed as part of an oral history project.

Filed Under: Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature

Walking With Water

By Heidi Fettig Parton | April 10, 2017 |

Sharon Day. Photo © Keely Kernan

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Filed Under: Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Water quality

Dunes of the Leelanau

By Laurie Allmann | March 16, 2017 |

Photo © Karen Mulvahill. All rights reserved.

Exploring Michigan’s dynamic coastal environment

Filed Under: History, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Science Tagged With: Great Laks

Dueling lawsuits over Minntac permit

By Stephanie Hemphill | February 22, 2017 |

Minntac mine. Photo courtesy wikimedia commons by Bjoertvedt

The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency is at the center of lawsuits over a long-delayed water quality permit for the Minntac taconite mine.

Filed Under: Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues, Resource Management, Water quality Tagged With: environmental review, mining, Northern Minnesota, resource management, rivers

Heart of Winter

By Agate | January 26, 2017 |

Photo by Dominique Braud

The shortest days are long on beauty: winter photography by Dominique Braud

Filed Under: Audio, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Photography

If Bees Are Few

By Stephanie Hemphill | January 4, 2017 |

Marla Spivak. Photo by Jayme Halbritte/Getty Images for MacArthur Foundation.

A conversation with the poet and the entomologist whose teamwork produced an anthology of poems about bees.

Filed Under: Art, Flowers, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Insects, Issues, Poetry, Science Tagged With: Nature, poetry

In the Abstract

By Laurie Allmann | December 12, 2016 |

Photo Luke Taylor

What is insight if not minutia well considered?

Filed Under: Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Poetry, Science

Reporter’s Notebook: Oral history project continues with Grant Merritt

By Stephanie Hemphill | November 18, 2016 |

Image © Jim Gindorff

Key players in passage and uses of early environmental legislation are interviewed as part of an oral history project.

Filed Under: History, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues, Reporter's Notebook Tagged With: conservation, environmental review, Lake Superior, mining, Northern Minnesota, policy

The Blue Mountains of Minnesota

By Paul Gruchow | October 31, 2016 |

The "three sisters tree" in Blue Mounds. Photo © John Duren

Agate continues its series on the writings of Paul Gruchow with an excerpt from his book, The Necessity of Empty Places, and a tribute to Southwest Minnesota’s Blue Mounds

Filed Under: Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature

Above Superior

By Cynthia Dickinson | October 10, 2016 |

Superior National Forest after take-off from the USFS Seaplane Base. © C.Dickinson

Photographer Cynthia Dickinson spends a day in the skies above the Superior National Forest with USGS researcher Dr. Shannon Barber-Meyer and USFS pilot Pat Loe.

Filed Under: Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Research, Resource Management, Science

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